The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-05-18
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
(By Our Regular Correspondence

(By Our Regular Corrcspondont.)
Washington. May 10th, 1887.
The President. Mrs. Cleveland,
the Cabinet and Diplomatic Corpse
have been busy during the past few
days discharging official and social
duties to the Queen of the Sand
wich Islands. The remainder of
Washington Society has divided its
time between the Jockey Club ra-
ces, the opera and the circus.
Each day there has been a full
program for the entertainment of
the Hawaiin visitor, which upon
being fully carried out found roy
atty WAS much iatigucd and will
ing to rest. The Queen weighs
about two hundred pounds appa-
rently, aud Washington weather is
warmer than that which she has
recently felt, Judging from the fact
that she arrived from Chicago in a
travelling garment of fur.
The events Of her first day in
Washington began with Il visit to
the President at noon, accompan-
led by her suit. All visitors had
been excluded from the White
House at ten o'clock, SO that only Il
few correspondents were in the
corridor when the victoria, drawn
by white horses drew up under the
portico. Mr.. Carter, the Hawaiin
minister in full official uniform of
white cloth with a profusion OF gold
braid, escorted the Queen across
the portico and corridors into the
Blue parlor where tn p ,sidcnt
and Mrs Cleveland, unattended.
were waiting to receive the s, ute.
The President advanced and ta-
king her hand, babe her welcome
to our country, presented Mrs
Cleveland, and after the other
members Of the party had been in
troduccd by the Interpreter, gcncr-
al conversation followed. Her
majesty wore II long trimmed dress
of black satin deliberately trimmed
with gold-braid, Il black bonnet and
carried u small fan Of Sea-gullS
down with Il yellow cc1.trc. At the
close of the visit, which did not oc-
cupy more than fifteen minutes,
the royal party returned to their
apartments at che Arlington, where
an hour a1d half later Mrs lcvc-
land and the ladies of the Cabinet
returned ,the Queens call. Two
hours, | believe, is the utmost limit
allowed by the royal etiquette for
returning visits.
While at the White Hous" Queen
kapiolani looked very closely at
all of her surroundings, and OBJ
served each person present. She
has n grim cast cOuntcnancc, and
in complexion is Il clear brown,
similar to and about as dark as Il
mulatto.
Attic dinner given by the Haw-
aim minister in honorsofhis Queen,
the invitations were limited to Of
iicials and to those who had visited
Honolulu. or whose names were ia
miliar to the visitors. Among
those present were Secretaries Ba-
yard, Fairchild, Whitney and En-
dicOtt, Postmaster General Villas,
Gen. Sheridan, AdmiralS Porter,
Stevens, Semple, and Ammen,
Chief Justice Waite, Gen. Greedy
and n few others, almost all of
whom we're accompanied by ladies.
When sightseeing at the Capitol
the Queen showed special interest
in the Hall of the House of Repre-
sentativcs. This, she said was on
account of the cordial reception ac-
corded to her husband there by
Speaker Blaine, when HIS Majesty
Kalakaua visited this city several
years ago. But she says the most
delightful experience She has had
in America was at the Deaf and
Dumb college i'll this city. She is
greatly interested in the work of
educatingsdcaf mutcs, and the Pres
ident of Kendall Green, Knowing
this, arranged an entertainment in
her honor and invited her. EXPIRES
sing her delight with the exercises
she made the remark that she wish
Cd she could have embraced all of
the pupils. Today she visited the
tomb of Washington with II dis
t:nguiShed party rs escort, and this
evening she is dining at the White
House.
EX.Rcprcsentativc Barbour, OF
Virginia, who is himself Il man OF
fine address and elegant manners,
was recently speaking Of President
Cleveland as n host, and was en-
thusiastic in his praise. He thinks
he never knew q man OCCUPYING q
high official position more easy o.
approach than Mr.. Cleveland. And
though he may not possess as large
amount of magnetism as his polit.
ical rival in Maine is rcputed tt
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